majority of kids don't want to talk to there parents and call them all the time there's a differnce between missing them and then like calling all the time. college is when your on your own and most people take advantage of that freedom.

Yeah. My parents got a very cheap pay as you go phone when I went to uni. They called me when they wanted to, and for calls I wanted to make, including to them, I topped up the credit.
OP, FYL for having such a ungrateful on, but YDI for giving him the means. You need to keep your end up in the contact game. My sister and my mum always complain to me that the other doesn't call. Someone's got to start the process.

relationship between my old man and me got awkward after few months of not calling each other. When we did we just had awkward clunky robot like conversations with nothing coming out of mind. You can talk more freely when meeting face to face, which I do now.

@TheCib - Snickerdoodles was FML's resident Grammar Nazi for a while, I'm not sure how long, I arrived way into her reign. You really want to know what she was like - read the comment threads for FMLs from last year, you're bound to find some of her epic comments and arguments.